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THE 13th ANNUAL MURIEL (MUR13L) AWARDS
Critics groups. The Film Independent Spirits Awards. The Oscars. Whew. Awards season is finally over, right? Well, yes and no. Because though…
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THREE GREAT ACADEMY AWARD ALTERNATIVES— PLUS, FEARLESS OSCAR PREDICTONS, 2019 EDITION!
The Oscars are looming, in case you hadn’t heard. I spent last evening with a last-minute Oscar lightning round screening of Willem…
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NICE GOIN’, KID: DICK MILLER (1928-2019)
A lot of words have already been written this week, and hopefully a lot more will be written in the next few…
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KNEEJERK REACTIONS TO THE 2018 OSCAR NOMINATIONS, or DOES THIS MEAN I HAVE TO SEE A STAR IS BORN NOW?
I knew it was coming, but now that it’s finally here, it feels a little weird to have to admit it. After…
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OUT ON A WEB: THE MOVIES OF 2018
When is the best not the best? I think the answer to this non-rhetorical question that maybe nobody would ever ask in…
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THE FAVOURITE
Those who possess more than my cursory knowledge of the history of British royalty have made it clear Yorgos Lanthimos’s new movie The…
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JOE DANTE’S 3D ACE IN THE HOLE
Trailers From Hell readers, as well as all film fans in the Los Angeles area, are getting a special treat this coming…
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THE GREAT MOONSHINE FILM FESTIVAL
Every so often the stars align in such a way as to allow a perfectly inert and “nonproductive” weekend spent in the…
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TERENCE FISHER AND THE GREATEST HAMMER HORROR OF THEM ALL
The cry came forth from a dark corner of my living room as it usually does this time of year, as it…
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Game Night
Game Night is as high concept a comedy as they come—a group of very competitive friends who do a weekly game night…
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Venom
Back in the summer of 2008, I absorbed all the terrible advance notices that the Wachowskis’ Speed Racer was racking up, saw it…
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Fahrenheit 11/9
This past weekend Michael Moore’s new movie Fahrenheit 11/9, about how the world as we know it in the Trump age came…
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THE MURIEL AWARDS HALL OF FAME, CLASS OF 2018
In its inaugural year, 2005, I began writing for the Muriel Awards, a year-end voting collective dedicated to summing up the year’s…
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BURT REYNOLDS (1936-2018) AND DELIVERANCE
This past week Burt Reynolds, perhaps the most self-deprecating movie star to ever cruise to box-office domination, died during a hospital stay…
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THE DESERT HEART OF CHARLEY VARRICK
Had I not recently revisited Don Siegel’s dusty, nail-hard crime thriller Charley Varrick, in fact just the night before seeing Hou Hsiao-hsien’s…
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Eat Me – Animal House at 40
“Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules or took a few liberties…
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ON MISADVENTURES AND BEING FUNNY IN AN ALTERNATE HOLLYWOOD: AN INTERVIEW WITH BIFFLE & SHOOSTER’S MICHAEL SCHLESINGER
“Who are you?” “B-I-double F-iffle. Biffle! S-H-double O-ooster. Shooster! We’re Biffle and Shooster! Need we say more?” In 1928, the vaudeville comedy…
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THE BEST OF 2018 SO FAR
Here it is, the second week of July already, and I feel as though I’ve barely seen anything in the realm of…
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SIXTEEN YEARS OF MOVIE LOVE WITH MY HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE
My eldest daughter graduated from high school this week, an event that most parents who have been through it before will understand…
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Q: WHO’S PATSY KELLY? A:…
The following is a slightly re-edited version of a piece that ran during the early days of my blog, Sergio Leone and…
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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY RETURNS IN 70mm
People always say it, and I often do myself: “Seeing (Movie X) on the big screen again was like seeing it for…
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TEN THINGS I LEARNED AT TCMFF 2018
TEN THINGS I LEARNED AT TCMFF 2018 Yet another TCM Classic Film Festival is in the bank—the ninth out of nine I’ve…
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O THE CHOICES I HAVE! A 2018 TCMFF PREAMBLE
So much time, so few movies to see. Scratch that. Reverse it. Running a little later than usual this year, the 2018…
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WEEKEND MENAGERIE: A BULL, A BUNNY AND A GO-RILLA
“Walt Whitman once said, ‘I see great things in baseball. It’s our game, the American game. It will repair our losses and…
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The Scarlet Empress
The Scarlet Empress (1934), starring Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dresser and “a supporting cast of 1,000 players,” is director…
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OUT OF PRINT: THE NEW BEVERLY CINEMA’S HISTORY
The title of Julia Marchese’s testimonial documentary on the history of Los Angeles’ the New Beverly Cinema, Out of Print, began, as…